Jules Ottenstadion was a multi-purpose stadium in Gentbrugge, Ghent, Belgium. It was used mostly for football matches and used to be the home ground of K.A.A. Gent. The stadium held 12,919 seats and was built in 1920. It was replaced as the club's home ground by the new Ghelamco Arena in 2013. At the end of the use of the stadium for the home matches of KAA Gent, it was simply called Ottenstadion by the people of Ghent. It was situated in the centre of a residential neighbourhood in the Bruiloftstraat in Gentbrugge.

The stadium was built in 1920 and was officially opened on 22 August of that year by the Dauphin of that time, Prince Leopold. The stadium was named after Jules Otten, one of the founders of KAA Gent, which was called La Gantoise at that time.

K.A.A. Gent played its home games at the stadium for 90 years, before moving to the new Ghelamco Arena, which is situated at the Ottergemsesteenweg. It was planned that the new stadium would be ready by the 2007-2008 season, but due to many delays, it wasn't opened until 2013. The new Arena with 20,000 seats was officially inaugurated on 17 July 2013.[2]

The Jules Ottenstadium has been demolished and will be replaced by a residential environment.

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Gentbrugge
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Gentbrugge is one of 25 districts of the city of Ghent, Belgium in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Gentbrugge together with Oud Gentbrugge had been a municipality before January 1,1977. The district of Gentbrugge itself has been divided in four neighborhoods, Dries, Sportplein, Coninxdonk and it is being developed by the City of Ghent to an area for nature development/conservation and recreation. Historical parc, now for recreational use, from the Castle Vilain named after its first owner Albijn Vilain only a tower remains. The water tower, visible when entering Ghent by the E17 highway from Antwerp, originally from 1937 and colorfully repainted in 1990 by the Ghent artist Chris Demangel. Gentbrugge used to host the stadium of the Belgian first league club, KAA Gent. Now the football club resides over at the Ghelamco Arena in the city of Ghent, the St. Eligius Church near the Brusselsesteenweg. Originally neo-gothic from 1884, but expanded in art-deco style in 1937 by the architect W. Vandenbogaerde, the castle Coninxdonck, built in the 19th century to replace a medieval castle The Administrative Center. An example of sixties functionalism designed by the Belgian architect Paul Felix in 1973, Gentbrugge used to have the stadium of the First Class-team KAA Gent, also known as La Gantoise. The final tribune of the stadium got demolished in june 2014, since then La Gantoise resides at the Ghelamco arena near the U. Z. clinic in Ghent. There are some tennis courts in Gentbrugge of a team which is also called La Gantoise, theres also another football team in Ghent, which played its games in the Emanuel Hielstadium. This team was created on the 1, april 1899 when the teams Athletic Club Gantois, Sport Pédestre Gantois and Football Club Gantois merged and became a member of the UBSSA as Racing Club de Gand. In the period before 2010 this team has changed its name after some later developments into KRC-Gent-Zeehaven, the fields in Gentbrugge have accommodated athletics from 2010 in order to give a suitable training field to the Racing Club Gent for Athletics. Official site of the district Gentbrugge Local activities and events Site of Gentbugse Meersen nature conservation area Artikel about the end of the stadium in Gentbrugge

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Multi-purpose stadium
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Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event and it is used most commonly in Canada and the United States, where the two most popular outdoor team sports – football and baseball – require radically different facilities. Football uses a field, while baseball is played on a diamond. This requires a design to accommodate both, usually an oval. While building stadiums in this way means that sports teams and governments can share costs, some stadiums were renovated to allow multipurpose configurations during the 1980s. This type of stadium is associated with an era of suburbanization, in many sports teams followed their fans out of large cities into areas with cheaper. They were usually built near highways and had large parking lots, as multipurpose stadiums were rarely ideal for both sports usually housed in them, they had fallen out of favor by the 1990s. With the completion of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City in 1973, since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992, most major league sports stadiums have been built specifically for one sport. In other countries, such as England, teams rarely share facilities, in Australia, many sports grounds are suited to both Australian rules football and cricket, as Australian rules was originally conceived for play on cricket fields. As of 2016, the Oakland Coliseum is the last multipurpose stadium to serve as a home to both an MLB team and an NFL team. Several stadiums hosted multiple sports teams prior to the advent of multipurpose stadiums, the original configuration of Yankee Stadium was specifically designed to accommodate football, as well as track and field, in addition to its primary use for baseball. Wrigley Field, while originally built for baseball, also hosted the Chicago Bears, just as Comiskey Park hosted the Chicago Cardinals, later venues such as Cleveland Stadium and Baltimore Memorial Stadium were built to accommodate both baseball and football. In the 1960s, multipurpose stadiums began replacing their baseball-only and football-only predecessors, subsets of the multipurpose stadiums were the so-called cookie-cutter stadiums or concrete donuts which were all very similar in design. They featured a circular or nearly circular design, and accommodated both baseball and football by rotating sections of the box seat areas to fit the respective playing fields. The first of these stadiums was Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, as of 2016, seven of these 11 stadiums have been demolished. The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was unusual in that it was one of the few air-supported dome stadiums that was multipurpose in practice, being convertible between football and baseball. Home of the Minnesota Vikings through the 2013 season, it was home to the Minnesota Twins until 2009. The Carrier Dome was another such air-supported, multipurpose stadium, although it was built to accommodate sports such as football

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Ghent
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Ghent is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province and it is a port and university city. With 240,191 inhabitants in the beginning of 2009, Ghent is Belgiums second largest municipality by number of inhabitants, the current mayor of Ghent, Daniël Termont, leads a coalition of the Socialistische Partij Anders, Groen and Open VLD. The ten-day-long Ghent Festival is held every year and attended by about 1–1.5 million visitors, archaeological evidence shows human presence in the region of the confluence of Scheldt and Leie going back as far as the Stone Age and the Iron Age. Most historians believe that the name for Ghent, Ganda, is derived from the Celtic word ganda which means confluence. Other sources connect its name with a deity named Gontia. There are no records of the Roman period, but archaeological research confirms that the region of Ghent was further inhabited. When the Franks invaded the Roman territories from the end of the 4th century and well into the 5th century, they brought their language with them and Celtic, around 650, Saint Amand founded two abbeys in Ghent, St. Peters and Saint Bavos Abbey. The city grew from several nuclei, the abbeys and a commercial centre, around 800, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, as abbot of both abbeys. In 851 and 879, the city was attacked and plundered twice by the Vikings. Within the protection of the County of Flanders, the city recovered and flourished from the 11th century, by the 13th century, Ghent was the biggest city in Europe north of the Alps after Paris, it was bigger than Cologne or Moscow. Within the city walls lived up to 65,000 people, the belfry and the towers of the Saint Bavo Cathedral and Saint Nicholas Church are just a few examples of the skyline of the period. The rivers flowed in an area where land was periodically flooded. These rich grass meersen were ideally suited for herding sheep, the wool of which was used for making cloth, during the Middle Ages Ghent was the leading city for cloth. The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages, the mercantile zone was so highly developed that wool had to be imported from Scotland and England. This was one of the reasons for Flanders good relationship with Scotland and England, Ghent was the birthplace of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Trade with England suffered significantly during the Hundred Years War, the city recovered in the 15th century, when Flanders was united with neighbouring provinces under the Dukes of Burgundy. High taxes led to a rebellion and eventually the Battle of Gavere in 1453, around this time the centre of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders to Brabant, although Ghent continued to play an important role

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Belgium
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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea. It is a small, densely populated country which covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres and has a population of about 11 million people. Additionally, there is a group of German-speakers who live in the East Cantons located around the High Fens area. Historically, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were known as the Low Countries, the region was called Belgica in Latin, after the Roman province of Gallia Belgica. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, today, Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. It is divided into three regions and three communities, that exist next to each other and its two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region is a bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia, Belgiums linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in its political history and complex system of governance, made up of six different governments. Upon its independence, declared in 1830, Belgium participated in the Industrial Revolution and, during the course of the 20th century, possessed a number of colonies in Africa. This continuing antagonism has led to several far-reaching reforms, resulting in a transition from a unitary to a federal arrangement during the period from 1970 to 1993. Belgium is also a member of the Eurozone, NATO, OECD and WTO. Its capital, Brussels, hosts several of the EUs official seats as well as the headquarters of major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium is also a part of the Schengen Area, Belgium is a developed country, with an advanced high-income economy and is categorized as very high in the Human Development Index. A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings, a gradual shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire. Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the 14th and 15th centuries, the Eighty Years War divided the Low Countries into the northern United Provinces and the Southern Netherlands. The latter were ruled successively by the Spanish and the Austrian Habsburgs and this was the theatre of most Franco-Spanish and Franco-Austrian wars during the 17th and 18th centuries. The reunification of the Low Countries as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands occurred at the dissolution of the First French Empire in 1815, although the franchise was initially restricted, universal suffrage for men was introduced after the general strike of 1893 and for women in 1949. The main political parties of the 19th century were the Catholic Party, French was originally the single official language adopted by the nobility and the bourgeoisie

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Ghelamco Arena
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The Ghelamco Arena is a multi-use stadium in Ghent, Belgium. It hosts the matches of football club K. A. A. Gent and was opened on July 17,2013, making it the first new-built Belgian football stadium since 1974. The stadium seats 20,000 and replaced the Jules Ottenstadion, the stadium hosted its first competitive match on 4 August 2013, when Gent won 2-1 over KV Mechelen. The stadium would be given the name of Arteveldestadion and should help in the growth of the team. In 2009 new problems concerning the financing of the stadium became public, in June 2010, the city of Ghent announced that it had come to a definitive agreement with real estate developer Ghelamco about the construction and exploitation of the stadium. After approval of the lease agreement in the city council, which was realized during the meeting of October 2010. They were scheduled to be finished before the start of the 2012–13 Belgian Pro League, on 31 May 2013, a few months before the official opening, it was officially announced that the stadium would be named Ghelamco Arena, after the constructor. The stadium was inaugurated on 17 July 2013 with and exhibition game. The stadium counts with 1,200 parking spots, mainly for employees, security and safety services, members of the press, VIPs, in addition, there are approximately 1,000 carpool spots for supporters within a radius of 1.2 kilometers around the stadium. Alternative ways of reaching the stadium can be found in public transport, on match days, shuttle buses drive between the arena and the Woodrow Wilson Square in the city centre. Bus lines 65 and 67 take people from the Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station to the stadium, throughout the year, businesses can rent parts of the stadium to host a variety of events. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, all games of the Belgium national football team were shown on big screens, accompanied by performances of Belgian artists Regi Penxten, Clouseau, Natalia and Milk Inc. Ghelamco Arena is the base of real estate developer Ghelamco and houses an Albert Heijn store, an employment agency. It also houses Michelin star restaurant Horseele, a bistro and a sandwich place, official website KAA Gent official website Ghelamco Arena, offices & retail The Blue Towers, offices in the Arteveldepark Stadium pictures

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Antwerp
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Antwerp is a city in Belgium, the capital of Antwerp province in the region of Flanders. With a population of 510,610, it is the most populous city proper in Belgium and its metropolitan area houses around 1,200,000 people, which is second behind Brussels. Antwerp is on the River Scheldt, linked to the North Sea by the Westerschelde estuary, the Port of Antwerp is one of the biggest in the world, ranking second in Europe and within the top 20 globally. Antwerp has long been an important city in the Low Countries, the inhabitants of Antwerp are nicknamed Sinjoren, after the Spanish honorific señor or French seigneur, lord, referring to the Spanish noblemen who ruled the city in the 17th century. The city hosted the 1920 Summer Olympics, according to folklore, notably celebrated by a statue in front of the town hall, the city got its name from a legend about a giant called Antigoon who lived near the Scheldt river. He exacted a toll from passing boatmen, and for those who refused, he severed one of their hands, eventually the giant was killed by a young hero named Silvius Brabo, who cut off the giants own hand and flung it into the river. Hence the name Antwerpen, from Dutch hand werpen, akin to Old English hand and wearpan, a longstanding theory is that the name originated in the Gallo-Roman period and comes from the Latin antverpia. Antverpia would come from Ante Verpia, indicating land that forms by deposition in the curve of a river. Note that the river Scheldt, before a period between 600 and 750, followed a different track. This must have coincided roughly with the current ringway south of the city, however, many historians think it unlikely that there was a large settlement which would be named Antverpia, but more something like an outpost with a river crossing. However, John Lothrop Motley argues, and so do a lot of Dutch etymologists and historians, aan t werp is also possible. This warp is a hill or a river deposit, high enough to remain dry at high tide. Another word for werp is pol hence polders, historical Antwerp allegedly had its origins in a Gallo-Roman vicus. Excavations carried out in the oldest section near the Scheldt, 1952–1961, produced pottery shards, the earliest mention of Antwerp dates from the 4th century. In the 4th century, Antwerp was first named, having been settled by the Germanic Franks, the name was reputed to have been derived from anda and werpum. The Merovingian Antwerp was evangelized by Saint Amand in the 7th century, at the end of the 10th century, the Scheldt became the boundary of the Holy Roman Empire. Antwerp became a margraviate in 980, by the German emperor Otto I, in the 11th century Godfrey of Bouillon was for some years known as the marquis of Antwerp. In the 12th century, Norbert of Xanten established a community of his Premonstratensian canons at St. Michaels Abbey at Caloes

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Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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The football at the 1920 Summer Olympics, was one of the 154 events at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp. It was the time association football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested by 14 teams, with host country Belgium winning the gold medal, Spain won silver, while the Netherlands won the bronze medal. 14 teams entered the competition which was organized on a knockout basis,12 teams entered the first round, with the 6 winners joining the host nation and France, in the quarter-finals. Perhaps the most far-reaching of the results was that which saw Norway defeat Great Britain in the first round, the British delegation were concerned with the rise in professional opponents within the international game. Whatever the reason or excuse, thinly-veiled professionalism was rampant, ironically Norway were not a professional side. The complaint was, however, clearly addressed at a growing trend within the game, Czechoslovakia, participating in their first international tournament, cruised to the final, inflicting heavy defeats on Yugoslavia, Norway, and France. Belgium beat a talented Spain and then the Netherlands on their way to the final, Belgium won the gold medal by default after Czechoslovakia walked off in protest during the final, unhappy with the performance of the English referee, John Lewis. The Bergvall System was used to determine second and third places, the beaten quarter-finalists played-off, Spain emerged triumphant overcoming Sweden 2-1 and Italy 2-0. Ordinarily, Spain would then have played the beaten finalists, Spain thus advanced straight to the silver medal match against the Netherlands, beaten in the semi-finals by gold medallists Belgium. The final was highly controversial and remains the only occasion in which an international final has had to have been abandoned, Belgium was awarded the gold medal by default after Czechoslovakia walked off the field in the 40th minute of the final when Czech left-back Karel Steiner was ejected. Knight, who had allowed a contentious second Belgian goal in the 28th minute that Henri Larnoe had converted, the Czechs protested the result of the final. Their protests, translated from the original French, were as follows,1 and we were allocated an English linesman, which is in contradiction with the rules which state that each participating nation has the right to one of both linesman. This violation of the rules was prejudicial to us during the game, because the English linesman was not impartial, immediately after the game we brought this notice to the attention of M. Rodolphe Seeldrayers. The majority of the decisions of the referee Mr. Lewis were wrong, also both Belgian goals were the result of incorrect decisions of the referee and we seek a rigorous investigation on that point. During the match, Belgian soldiers were introduced to the crowd until they circled the pitch, czechoslovakias protests were dismissed, and they were disqualified from the tournament

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Antwerp Zoo
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Antwerp Zoo is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station. It is the oldest animal park in the country, and one of the oldest in the world, since its foundation, the park has been controlled by De Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, a society originally called Société Royale de Zoologie dAnvers. This also became the nickname for the zoo, De Zoologie. The initial objective was to encourage zoological and botanical sciences and its first director was renowned zoologist and botanist Jacques Kets. He accepted this position on one condition, a museum had to be built to house his nature-historical collections and this building was inaugurated in 1844 by H. M. King Léopold I. The predicate Royal was added to the name of the society on that occasion, throughout the years, it has encouraged wildlife preservation through activities and exhibits on a recreational, educational, scientific, and cultural level. In its early years, the size of the park grew from less than 1.59 hectares to more than 10.5 hectares, notable buildings from that period are the Egyptian temple and the antelope building in Oriental style, which now houses the okapis. The zoo has also a cultural function, originally, concerts were held in the garden. The museum building was demolished to build a concert hall, the museum collections were moved to the second floor. For the 1920 Summer Olympics, the hosted the boxing and wrestling events. After World War II, the park was turned into a model zoo which conformed to new and modern scientific, educational, cultural. The animal compounds were enlarged and admitted more light, the jubileum complex houses birds of prey and the sea lions. In 1973 a new compound for reptilians was built, and in 1978 a new building for smaller species of monkeys, the older primate building was renovated in 1989. To support its mission, the zoo started with group tours. Around the same time, planetarium exhibits were installed, on 1 January 1983, the animal park was classified as a monument. Ten years later, its 150th anniversary was celebrated and it houses subantarctic penguins and Alaskan sea otters. In spring 1999, the elephant compound was expanded, in 2003, many animals, including hippos, Malayan tapirs, and a number of swamp birds received a new home in Hippotopia. Together with its sister park Planckendael, Antwerp Zoo houses over 7,000 animals of about 950 species, over 1.6 million people visit the zoo and Planckendael each year, and the zoo has around 200,000 supporting members

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Ostend
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Ostend is a Belgian coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, in earlier times, Ostend was a small village built on the east-end of an island between the North Sea and a beach lake. Although small, the rose to the status of town around 1265 when the inhabitants were allowed to hold a market. The major source of income for the inhabitants was fishing, the North Sea coastline has always been rather unstable and in 1395 the inhabitants decided to build a new Ostend behind large dikes and further away from the always-threatening sea. The strategic position on the North Sea coast had major advantages for Ostend as a harbour, the town was frequently taken, ravaged, ransacked and destroyed by conquering armies. The Dutch rebels, the Gueuzen, took control of the town and this shocking event set in motion negotiations that led to a truce several years later. When the truce broke down, it became a Dunkirker base, after this era, Ostend was turned into a harbour of some importance. In 1722, the Dutch again closed off the entrance to the worlds biggest harbour of Antwerp, therefore, Ostend rose in importance because the town provided an alternative exit to the sea. The Belgium Austriacum had become part of the Austrian Empire, the Austrian Emperor Charles VI granted the town the trade monopoly with Africa and the Far-East. The Oostendse Compagnie was allowed to found colonies overseas, however, in 1727 the Oostendse Compagnie was forced to stop its activities because of Dutch and British pressure. The Netherlands and Britain would not allow competitors on the trade level. Both nations regarded international trade as their privilege, on 19 September 1826 the local artillery magazine exploded. At least 20 people were killed and a further 200 injured, the affluent quarter of dHargras was levelled and scarcely a building in the city escaped damage. Disease followed the leading to further deaths. The harbour of Ostend continued to expand because the harbour dock, in 1838, a railway connection with Brussels was constructed. Ostend became a harbour to England in 1846 when the first ferry sailed to Dover. Very important for the image of the town was the attention it started to receive from the Belgian kings Leopold I, both liked to spend their holidays in Ostend. Important monuments and villas were built to please the Royal Family, including the Hippodrome Wellington horse racing track, the rest of aristocratic Belgium followed and soon Ostend became known as The Queen of the Belgian sea-side resorts

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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics was one of the 102 events at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the time that football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested between 11 nations, all of them from Europe, with Great Britain winning the gold medals, replicating the 1908 tournament, Denmark won silver medals and the Netherlands won bronze medals. Just as the Football Association had organised the 1908 Olympic football competition in London, the games took place in three different stadiums from June 29 to July 5,1912. The database of the International Olympic Committee lists only the players as medalists for each nation. The following list contains these eleven players, as well as all players who made at least one appearance for their team during the tournament. The tournament attracted a record 11 entries, all of them from Europe, france and Belgium withdrew from the event shortly before the draw. The entry of Bohemia was not accepted, because only nations and associations affiliated to the FIFA were allowed to enter teams, the Football Association entered a Great Britain national amateur team to represent Great Britain. In the first round of the tournament, the hosts from Sweden went out in the match against the Netherlands. Fighting back from a 1-3 deficit with half an hour to go, at Tranebergs Idrottsplats, Austrian football pioneer Hugo Meisl was the referee as Finland beat Italy also in extra time. In the second round, Finland won again, this time beating Russia, by this stage, the Great Britain team entered the contest, drawn to play against Hungary at Olympiastadion. Great Britain was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, led by forward Harold Walden, who scored six goals, Great Britain convincingly defeated Hungary with 7-0. In the semi-final round, Walden scored all four goals, as Great Britain defeated Finland 4-0, in the other semi-final Denmark beat the Netherlands 4-1, the Dutch consolation goal put behind goalkeeper Sophus Hansen by Danish defender Harald Hansen. With no rule allowing substitutions, Denmark played with one less from the 30th minute of the game. A consolation tournament run, conjunctively, with the tournament proper paired the losers of the first and second rounds, german player Gottfried Fuchs equalled the record for most goals in an international with 10 goals for Germany against Russia, a record that stood until 2001

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Stockholm Olympic Stadium
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Stockholm Olympic Stadium, most often called Stockholms stadion or simply Stadion, is a stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by architect Torben Grut, it was opened in 1912, at the 1912 Games, it hosted the athletics, some of the equestrian, some of the football, gymnastics, the running part of the modern pentathlon, tug of war, and wrestling events. It has a capacity of 13, 145–14,500 depending on usage, the Stadium was the home ground for association football team Djurgårdens IF for many decades, until the more modern Tele2 Arena was inaugurated in 2013. Djurgårdens IF still has offices in the Stadium building as of 2014, in 1956, when Melbourne hosted the Olympics, the equestrian competitions were held here due to quarantine rules in Australia. In 1958 the stadium was the venue of the European Athletics Championships, finland-Sweden athletics international has been held here 29 times. The annual Stockholm Marathon finishes with a three quarter lap around the tracks of the stadium, since 1967 the stadium has been the venue of the annual international athletics meeting DN Galan, from 2011 part of IAAF Diamond League. Originally, the north-east stand had two levels, increasing the capacity to about 20,000, after the Olympics, it was reduced to one level. The Metro station Stadion was opened in 1973, since then, it has hosted numerous sports events, notably football and track and field athletics, but also for example,50 Swedish Championship finals in bandy and hosted concerts. In 1985, Bethany College head coach and future College Football Hall of Fame member Ted Kessinger brought the first American football team to play in Sweden, the Bethany Terrible Swedes defeated the Swedish all-star team 72–7. It is one of the smallest athletics stadium ever used in a Summer Olympic Games, Stockholms stadion has seen more athletics world records broken than any other stadium in the world, with a total of 83 as of 2008. The record attendance, for football, is 21,995 and was set on 16 August 1946, the record attendance, for bandy, is 28,848 and was set 1959. In 1995, The Rolling Stones performed at the stadium in front of 35,200 people, kiss sold out the stadium, by selling all 32,500 tickets in less than 20 minutes, during their 2008 World Tour. Kiss also played 2 nights at this stadium during their 1996–97 reunion tour Alive/Worldwide, michael Jackson performed on stage twice in July 17–18,1992, during Dangerous World Tour), for a total audience of 53,000 people. Bruce Springsteen has performed at the no less than eight times. Twice in 1988, once 1993, twice in 1999 and again in 2009 playing three sold out shows to approximately 100.000 people, being the only artist to have done so. AC/DC performed at the stadium on 3 June 2010 in front of 32,768 people DN Galan Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden Media related to Stockholms Olympiastadion at Wikimedia Commons

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Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, Uruguay dominated the football tournament winning the Gold. In 1921, the Belgium Football Association first allowed for payments to players for time lost from work, the Football Association, perhaps, with foresight considered their statement of 1884 to be one which FIFA should hereafter follow. They had stated, Any player registered with this Association, receiving remuneration. of any sort above. Necessary expenses actually paid, shall be considered to be a professional, in Association Football, Bernard Joy wrote about the 1912 Games that the authorities in Sweden had debated for a long time whether to include football. Because its popularity was not yet world wide, twelve years later, in Paris, football had become so important to the Games that a 1/3 of the income generated came from football. In terms of the numbers of participating teams this would be the biggest international football tournament until the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain and they would bring to Paris a revolution in ideas. Joy would write, A doctor and a physical expert were as important elements of the staff as the coach himself and they saw to it that their charges reached perfect physical condition. They were kept that way by staying away from the attractions of Paris at a villa in the village of Argenteuil. Once they arrived, once they started playing they would amaze, the way their forwards would pass the ball between themselves would captivate, belittling their early doubters. In Paris Jose Leandro Andrade would be dubbed La Merveille Noire, Italy, having remained unbeaten since 1922, now found themselves beaten 4-0 by an early incantation of Hugo Meisls Wunderteam. With just six weeks to go before the Games Italy had been walloped 7-1 by Hungary. ), other than dropping Giampiero Combi, Vittorio Pozzo would not make major changes, Italy would not prevail. The same policy was adopted by Yugoslavia, rather than considering dropping players they had sacked their manager Dr Veljko Ugrinic instead but would find his replacement Todor Sekulic just as hapless. He and they would become quite a feature of the Games, the Swiss, ironically, had been on the verge of withdrawing from the Games due to their continued success. The teams train ticket was valid for only 10 days and their money had run out, an appeal by a newspaper, Sport, brought in the needed funds. The concept of warm-up matches lay far into the future, both finalists from the previous Games would be present, Belgium being afforded a bye into the first round, the Czechs drawn against Turkey in the Preliminary Round. The Games competition was assisted by a Preliminary Round which featured the silver-medallists from the 1920 Games, since that time Spain had only lost once and that by a single goal away to Belgium and had drawn 0-0 with the Italians in March 1924. There was hardly anything between themselves and Italy when they met, this time, at the Colombes Stadium, Pedro Vallanas own goal handing victory to Italy, otherwise there were wildly lopsided results in the opening round. Hungary put five past Poland, the Swiss sent poor Lithuania on their way, but the big talking point was the play of the Uruguayans played first-rate football, combining speed, skill and perfect ball-control

Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida: Now a football-only stadium, its layout when it was a multi-purpose stadium (pictured here) placed the baseball diamond in the corner of the football field.